ATTACKS PREVENTIONIt is strongly recommended to have a comprehensive security plugin to be installed in your WordPress. There are many plugins out there, but one of the most preferred plugins is the iThemes Security, which can be downloaded from here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/iThemes Security is one of the most user-friendly security plugins in the market. It does more than most […]

Here are a few things you can do to improve your WordPress security:1. Update everythingEvery new release of WordPress contains patches and fixes that address real or potential vulnerabilities. If you don’t keep your website updated with the latest version of WordPress, you could be leaving yourself open to attacks.Many hackers will intentionally target older versions of […]

Wordpress is a famous CMS platform, its easy to use and deploy. However when coming to handle huge amount of traffic, some optimization on caching need to be done on the wordpress: 1. Go to wp-admin and install w3 total cache plugin 2. Activate the plugin and go to wp-admin -> Performance -> General Setting, […]

If you have installed WordPress in subfolder and want your domain URL to display main domain, you can follow the steps below. In this example, our domain is testing.com.my and we have installed WordPress in testing.com.my/v2. The end result will be URL show www.testing.com.my and displaying content of v2 Note: This example was using a […]

Browsers tend to cache static data like images, CSS and JavaScript files on a website to speed up page loading time during the next visit. The cache file will get bigger with each visit. We can set an “expiry” date on these files to prevent the browser from caching the site again and again. This is […]

Content Management System (CMS) and E-Commerce scripts are available and ready to be installed with just a few clicks using cPanel’s Softaculous. Step 1 – Login into cPanel. Step 2 – Click “Softaculous Apps Installer and select the script/software that you want to install. Step 3 – For this example, we are going to […]

1. Have your wordpress install and run normally. 2. Login to your wordpress admin panel. 3. Go to Plugins > Add New as show below. 4. Key in “w3 total cache” in the text box and click “Search Plugins”. 5. At the result list, you will see “w3 total cache” showed at the first of […]

This is a common error shown on WordPress after moving the wordpress from one server to another: file_exists() [function.file-exists]: open_basedir restriction in effect.file_exists() [function.file-exists]: open_basedir restriction in effect. Its due to changed of the absolute path, you will need to change the upload_path option in wordpress database: 1. Login to phpmyadmin which would normally located […]

1) First go to your public_html directory 2) Than create a .htaccess file 3) Add the below line in .htaccess php_flag magic_quotes_gpc Off Note: To view if the option is turn off use the phpinfo.php to check